Ejovi Nuwere

My paranoid security professional mind prevents me from blogging many of the cool things that happen to me. And I try not to blog anything about FON until Martin has. So, now I’m happy to say that I met Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google. I went to the Googleplex for the second time with Martin, Diego (FON’s COO) and Iurgi (lead engineer). Google is a really amazing place. I can’t explain why, but for a young technologist, or even an old technologist, when you walk through the halls you have the feeling of “this is where I want to hang out” it is a campus of smart people doing cool things.

I also visited Yahoo! and it reminded me of being back at Lehman Brothers, cubicles everywhere and eerily silent. Yahoo! had a much more corporate feel while Google was so much more vibrant. They are both great companies, but the culture couldn’t be more different. We visited Netgear and Linksys and seeing all of these different corporate environments has been fascinating. You really start to pick up on the corporate culture, you notice language patterns and discussion styles that are unique to a company. Its sort of like going to your best friends home and finding out that he’s just like the rest of his family.

Well, meeting Sergey was great. He was very unassuming. The way I described him, if you walked into a room of 10 people and said one of these people is a billionaire and the founder of the worlds most popular search engine, without knowing what he looked like, you wouldn’t be able to pick him out in 3 tries.

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